Jan Ketil Rød
Background and activities
I work with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) particularly for studies on the effects of climate change.
I was appointed Professor at the Department of Geography in 2013. I teach and supervise students in Geographic Information Systems and Science (GIS & S) and Effects of Climate Change. My research is broadly in applying GIS addressing issues related to climate change adaptation, vulnerability, environmental hazards, accessibility of health services, disaggregated studies of armed conflicts, urban planning and the use of GIS in education - especially field based education.
Selection of current projects:
Citizen Sensing. Urban Climate Resilience Through Participatory Risk Management System (CitizenSensing)
+CityxChange. Positive City ExChange.
Transforming Citizen Science for Biodiversity
INSITU - Sharing incident and threat information for common situational understanding
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2021) Coexistence of large mammals and humans is possible in Europe’s anthropogenic landscapes. iScience. vol. 24 (9).
- (2021) Identifying and correcting spatial bias in opportunistic citizen science data for wild ungulates in Norway. Ecology and Evolution.
- (2021) Using locational data in a novel mixed-methods sequence design: Identifying critical health care barriers for people with disabilities in Malawi. Social Science and Medicine. vol. 283.
- (2021) Pedestrian routing and perspectives: Wayfinder's route down the lane – come on with the rain. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. vol. 10 (365).
- (2021) A user-centric optimization of emergency map symbols to facilitate common operational picture. Cartography and Geographic Information Science.
- (2021) Using prospective methods to identify fieldwork locations favourable to understand divergences in health care accessibility. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. vol. 10 (8).
- (2021) Using citizen sensing to identify heat exposed neighbourhoods. Urban Science. vol. 5 (1).
- (2021) Double-blind multiple peer reviews to change students’ reading behaviour and help them develop their writing skills. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
- (2020) Hunters as citizen scientists: Contributions to biodiversity monitoring in Europe. Global Ecology and Conservation. vol. 23.
- (2020) Breaking the Eyes: How Do Users Get Started with a Coordinated and Multiple Views Geovisualization Tool?. The Cartographic Journal.
- (2020) Seeking commonalities of community resilience to natural hazards: A cluster analysis approach. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. vol. 74 (3).
- (2019) Sharing incident and threat information for common situational understanding. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. vol. 2019-May.
- (2019) A community resilience index for Norway: An adaptation of the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. vol. 36 (May).
- (2018) Combining survey data, GIS and qualitative interviews in the analysis of health service access for persons with disabilities. BMC International Health and Human Rights. vol. 18 (26).
- (2018) Spatial multi-criteria decision analysis tool suite for consensus-based siting of renewable energy structures. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management. vol. 20 (3).
- (2018) Feltbasert undervisning. Kan digital teknologi og innsikt i studenters foretrukne læringsmetoder gjøre feltbasert undervisning bedre?. UNIPED. vol. 41 (4).
- (2018) Visual clutter reduction in zoomable proportional point symbol maps. Cartography and Geographic Information Science.
- (2018) Utvikling av et verktøyspanel som visualiserer naturskadeutbetalinger. Kart og Plan. vol. 78 (3).
- (2017) VisAdapt: A visualization tool to support climate change adaptation. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. vol. 37 (2).
- (2017) Star and polyline glyphs in a grid plot and on a map display: which perform better?. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. vol. 45 (5).